Can large fermion chemical potentials suppress the electroweak phase transition ?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We calculate the critical temperature ) of the electroweak phase transition in the minimal standard model considering simultaneously temperature () and fermion chemical potential () effects over the effective potential. The calculation is performed in the one-loop approximation to the effective potential at non-zero temperature using the real time formalism of the thermal field theory. We show that it exists a fermion chemical potential critical value () for which the Higgs boson condensate vanishes at T=0. If and effects are considered simultaneously, it is shown that for then , implying that the electroweak phase transition might not take place.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011123,
title = {Can large fermion chemical potentials suppress the electroweak phase transition ?},
author = {Carlos Quimbay and John Morales and Rafael Hurtado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011123},
year = {2007}
}
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